Sidi: Do not bother to reply this e-mail. Your are right! Yes, our ordeal was on a Saturday. I'll never forget those two nights in Conakry. I keep telling a Guinean friend who lives here in Birmingham, that it is ONLY in Conakry that you find a hotel without electricty, water, food, bedsheets, telephones etc, and yet the hotel calls itself a Five Star Hotel!!! May God bless The Gambia! But may God also bless Guinea Conakry! Anyway, I better stop here. I am about to watch the England/Germany football match. I did not expect the Republic of Ireland to beat Holland. Ebrima >From: Sidi Sanneh <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: A Proud Father of a Gambian-American Diplomat >Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 07:06:51 -0500 > >Ebrima, > >Thanks. I will pass on your message to Fatuma. I most certainly remembered >Hotel Maria Dorr in Guinea: no telephone, no clean water and an ample >supply of bed bugs etc. I felt sorry for those little children who had to >go through it all for two nights while waiting for spares to be flown in >from Abidjan for our onward journey to Banjul. If you will recall, it was a >Saturday and according to the crew, stores were closed for the week-end and >passangers had to wait until Monday for spares for the landing gear and >front tyres to be procured and flown to Conakry. For those of us in these >neck of the woods, this is reality. I cannot say we are used to it, but we >manage somehow. Cheers! > >Sidi Sanneh > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >You may also send subscription requests to >[log in to unmask] >if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your >full name and e-mail address. >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------